日期：2009-06-23 China Eastern Airlines (CEA) will launch its first direct chartered flight from Shanghai to Taiwan on Monday. Top mainland and Taiwan negotiators signed historic agreements early last month in Taipei to establish full fledged links in transport, pos... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-23 Social stability could be threatened if the registered urban unemployment rate rises above 5 percent next year, a senior lawmaker warned yesterday. Zheng Gongcheng, a member of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, told China Daily the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-23 Shenzhen, China's pioneering city in reform and opening up in Guangdong province, was presented the City of Design award by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) yesterday. It became the 16th member of UNESCO'... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-23 A four-month nationwide campaign will begin tomorrow to ensure all food products are free of non-edible substances and excessive levels of additives, the government said yesterday. The move comes after melamine-contaminated baby milk food caused the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-23 GUANGZHOU: Beggars here are being told to move into shelters or pack up and go home as part of a scheme to clean up the city's streets, the Information Times News reported yesterday. The local civil affairs bureau launched the campaign after the peo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-23 An investigation has been launched into a newspaper report claiming that at least 18 people from Shandong province were detained in hospitals for the mentally ill after filing petitions in Beijing, the State Bureau for Letters and Calls said yesterd... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-23 Top policymakers will convene today to discuss how to grapple with the challenge of ensuring at least 8 percent economic growth next year while at the same time pushing forward with the nation's economic restructuring, economists have said. The annu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-23 Star hurdler Liu Xiang is expected to be back on track in six months after last week's surgery on his foot was declared a success. We felt he did very well through the surgery, said Thomas Clanton, the doctor who performed the procedure at Memorial... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-23 Beijing's population is approaching the saturation point, Wei Chenlin, director of the municipal bureau of land and resources, said on Tuesday. The population upper limit for the city, according to the bureau of land and resources, is 18 million. Cu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-23 The government yesterday expressed concern over the European Union's ban on Chinese soy products and baking powder because they reportedly contain melamine. We hope the problem (the ban) can be solved through dialogue and cooperation. I believe the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-23 Restoring global confidence and preventing the current financial crisis from spreading, especially to developing countries, are key tasks facing the world now, Vice-Premier Wang Qishan told top officials from China and the US yesterday. China hopes... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-23 Beijing has for the first time become more expensive than Hong Kong for foreigners as a result of surging inflation on the mainland and appreciation of the yuan, a survey showed yesterday. Rising costs pushed Beijing up to 31st place from 101st a ye... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-23 The government yesterday unveiled a raft of measures to encourage lending by financial institutions to infrastructure projects, small businesses and potential home and car buyers. Also, an extra credit volume of 100 billion yuan ($14.6 billion) will... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-23 An investigation has found that two Belgian journalists and their assistant involved in a dispute in a Henan village - where many residents contracted HIV/AIDS through blood transfusions - were not attacked, a provincial government spokesman said ye... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-23 Almost 5,200 rural officials were prosecuted for job-related crimes in the first 10 months of the year, the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) said yesterday. Prosecutors across the country investigated 10,752 officials, including 2,600 village he... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-23 The mainland is playing a crucial role in helping Taiwan out of an economic downturn, island leader Ma Ying-jeou said yesterday. In an interview with Radio Taiwan International broadcast live to the mainland, he also said he would continue to push f... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-23 Almost 80 percent of office buildings in Qingdao, Shandong province, fail to meet national standards for indoor air quality, and people's health is suffering as a result, a local trade association has said. According to a survey by the Qingdao Indoo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-23 The number of foreign visitors to China fell significantly in the first 10 months of the year, and the trend is set to continue next year, a senior tourism official said yesterday. Speaking at an industry conference in Beijing, Shao Qiwei, head of t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-23 Chinese Americans in the United States earn less than non-Hispanic Whites of the same educational level, despite having a higher educational level than the average population, a study has said. The compilers of a 64-page report, A Portrait of Chines... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-23 Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat was banned from politics for five years and his party disbanded yesterday, spurring anti-government protesters to end their blockades of Bangkok's airports. Government party members will switch to a new shell pa... 阅读全文>>